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Andrea Mrozek · October 24, 2025
On a recent evening in Vancouver, I had a game changing moment in conversation with Louise Perry, the author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution.
Luke Mandato · October 25, 2025
The Mustard Seed Ministry Bible Study Program at St. Francis Xavier Church in Mississauga, Ont., is drawing on the expertise of a renowned theologian to break open the Book of Isaiah over the coming eight months, giving attendees unique insight into the promise of salvation.
Origins celebrated saints, life after death
While keeping Christ in Christmas has long been a tagline to preserve the religious significance of Our Lord's birth date, Catholics are increasingly pushing to put the "halo" back in Halloween and reclaim the festivity's Catholic roots.
Catholic Register Staff · October 26, 2025
Message for the Archdiocesan Day for Palliative Care on 26 October, 2025, from His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto.
Cindy Wooden · October 27, 2025
In the presence of hundreds of priests and with lay faithful packed into the pews and standing along the walls, U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke celebrated the traditional Latin Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica.
Quinton Amundson · October 27, 2025
The Vatican is poised to return a collection of a “few dozen” cultural treasures from its Anima Mundi ethnological museum to Indigenous communities across Canada before the end of the Jubilee year.
Commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and its Creed, as well as reaffirming hopes for peace in the Middle East, Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon Nov. 27-Dec. 2.
Quinton Amundson · October 28, 2025
It took 38 years for Toronto food banks to experience over one million client visits in a single year.
Anna Farrow · October 28, 2025
In this its 25th year, the Christian think-tank Cardus is expanding its reach into Quebec.
Fund supports disabled man ‘repeatedly pressured’ to end his life
A grassroots fundraising campaign launched Sept. 30 by Life Care Network is aiming to give a 50-year-old man with a rare neurological disease the care he says he is being denied.
Junno Arocho Esteves · October 29, 2025
The new underground metro station in Tehran, Iran, dedicated to the Virgin Mary offers an opportunity for daily commuters to reflect on God's love for all, Belgian Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of Tehran-Isfahan said.
Gina Christian · October 29, 2025
A landmark Catholic document, credited with igniting a revolution in Catholic-Jewish relations over the decades, has turned 60."Nostra Aetate" ("In Our Time") was promulgated Oct. 28, 1965, by Pope St. Paul VI as part of the Second Vatican Council.
Kate Scanlon · October 29, 2025
President Donald Trump's ceasefire agreement in Gaza was tested Oct. 28 as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to conduct strikes in Gaza as his government alleged Hamas violated a White House-backed ceasefire agreement.
Carol Glatz · October 29, 2025
The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at an international gathering for peace.
Bill would open procedure to those with mental illness
Quinton Amundson · October 29, 2025
With the second reading debate for Bill C-218 expected before the Christmas recess — MPs last scheduled sitting day is Friday, Dec. 12 — advocates against expanding the Canadian assisted suicide regime are urging the successful passage of this legislation tabled by Conservative Tamara Jansen in June.
John Harbaugh is not afraid to share his faith with anyone
George P. Matysek Jr. · October 29, 2025
When John Harbaugh watched his daughter Alison play youth sports, he didn’t just study the scoreboard. He studied the sidelines.
Tom Tracy · October 29, 2025
The director of apostolates for a Jamaica-based religious community serving the poor in Kingston said Oct. 28 that the Category-5 Hurricane Melissa seems to be sparing Kingston the worst of its wrath.
Figure of Speech
Gerry Turcotte · October 30, 2025
If readers of Pope Leo the XIV’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi te (‘I have loved you’) detect an echo of the late Pope Francis in the document they would not be wrong. The work, signed on the October 4 by Pope Leo, was originally written by Pope Francis before he died and was subsequently revised and approved by our new pontiff.
Benjamin Lamb · October 30, 2025
My wife and our friends recently read and discussed sections of Pope Leo XIII’s timeless encyclical Rerum Novarum. Pope Leo XIV’s name inspired us to reflect on the Leonine Catholic intellectual tradition.
Residence in Victoria joins one already established in Toronto
Terry O'Neill · October 30, 2025
The furtive establishment of a stand-alone, private euthanasia house in Victoria, B.C., has sparked criticism from pro-lifers and exposed yet another way in which medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is spreading throughout the country.